Shallow & Pedantic

Lucky 13! We have a serious discussion of the filmography of Kevin Smith, comparing him to Quentin Tarantino, Charles Bukowski, and Henry Rollins. We mostly focus on Smith's "classic run" of View Askew films from 1993 to 2001.

A planned conversation about vampire comedy rapidly morphs into reminisences of the Goth scene, the spontaneous MST3Kness of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Where Horror Is Now, and the decline of Mel Brooks. Also features some preview info on the next issue of UJ. Fans of What We Do In Shadows welcome.

The long-promised episode, finally a reality.

An encompassing extrapolation from the plot structures and themes of "The Venture Brothers" and "Archer" to the general cultural-aesthetic vibe of Generation X and a lot of windy references to Greek Philosophy.

Are you prepared for two solid hours of chatter about Anime? Get comfy as we set to discussing: What Anime is, When it started, What is good/bad Anime for noobs?, Why it looks like that, Why Cowboy Bebop is a really good show, and Various asides on tangential matters Share and enjoy!

What if they gave a Podcast and no one introduced it? Enjoy as we meander through a series of topics almost entirely unintended: crazy cat dudes, ice hoes, werewolf romance, Doctor Sleep, The Pie Theory of Popular Entertainment, and the vast oeuvres of comic writers Alan Moore and Grant Morrison.

Listen to us not shut up about Westerns, Samurai movies, Sturgill Simpson, The Mandalorian, Pie, and how all of these things go together. Dune gets mentioned, because of course it does.

The gang (we're a gang now) discuss H.R. Gieger's particular brand of accessible horror-art, its origins, meaning, and influence, and about ten other subjects as our flow (and pronounciation of the man's name) keeps tacking back and forth like a whirligig in a hurricane. Good times.

We indulge in some Edmund Fitzgerald Porter and wax on about two creative fantasy authors that we've introduced each other two: Stephen Brust and Fritz Leiber. In the process, we hit upon why Andrew doesn't like cross-world fantasy, whether sci-fi and fantasy should be distinct, and stumble upon the Universal Field Theory of Creative Decline. A long and ramshackle episode, but fun.

A discussion of the bifurcation of The Shining into the King novel and the Kubrick film, both of which work despite the intentional differences between them. Ongoing discussion of the needs of literature vs. the needs of film. We also chat a bit about new things for Unnamed Journal and Shallow & Pedantic in general.

A podcast of changes here at Shallow & Pedantic. We break out new audio equipment, discuss big changes coming for Unnamed Journal and the whole S & P Universe (namely, that there will be one), and argue about whether fantasy is inherently atavistic.

It's Halloween, so we must do the thing that Halloween Podcasts do: confront the terror of the season. No, not inappropriately-timed store displays, just a cliff-dive into the ontology of horror. What is it? Why do we make it? Is it tragedy or comedy? Is it didactic, or merely sublime? Do we have to talk about IT?

For our inaugural episode, we drink a growler of pale ale and make a bunch of wildly inflated statements about various graphic novels and their terrible movie adaptations. We're not talking about you, Marvelfans, so locate and obtain your chill.